Jupiter LVI, provisionally known as , is a
natural satellite
A natural satellite is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet, dwarf planet, or small Solar System body (or sometimes another natural satellite). Natural satellites are colloquially referred to as moons, a deriv ...
of
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...
. It was discovered by
Scott Sheppard in 2011. Images of the newly discovered moon were captured using the Magellan-Baade telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. It is an irregular moon with a retrograde orbit. The discovery of Jupiter LVI brought the Jovian satellite count to 67. It is one of the outer retrograde swarm of objects orbiting Jupiter and belongs to the
Pasiphae group.
The moon was
lost following its discovery in 2011.
It was recovered in 2017 and given its permanent designation that year.
References
External links2 New Satellites of Jupiter Discovered
Carnegie Institution Department of Terriestrial Magnetism, 23 February 2012
Moons of Jupiter
Irregular satellites
Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard
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Pasiphae group
Moons with a retrograde orbit
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